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I hope lots of you are still enjoying the Swervetracker app. Lets see your stats for 2022? One goal for 2023 would be to get my sets number over 100!

Hi guys, yes thanks for reminding me about this - there will be a fix by the spring such that the stats are split for the new 2021 season (back dated to 1st Jan)

Ballers - sorry it's been quieter lately. Those of you lucky enough to still be skiing may well have noticed the ability to share sets with friends (and comment/like your 'friends' sets etc) has recently launched. As ever, welcome any of your feedback on this feature. Hopefully it looks something like Strava for slalom (that was the aim)!

Hi @lagdawg sorry to hear you're having issues. Seems to be affecting a few people after recent update. I'm looking into it, it will be resolved in the next few days

Insane? What are we talking? Have always thought if he can get to 3 ball @43 in a tournament, maybe he's been to 4 in practice...

A bunch of upgrades have just been made live on the app; - Star rating system (out of 5) for each set, making it easier to find your best sets in the future (great idea @jrs ) - When logging passes, each new pass added is at the last speed / rope length (saves tabbing through everything from your start pass when you've gone down the line) - should make things a lot easier - Added air temp - Ski and fin settings all working really a lot better. Essentially now the settings are tied to the ski, so when you change skis, settings change over to the last ones saved on that ski. - Added Zero Off + settings Thanks again for all the feedback so far, hope you're enjoying Swervetracker! More to come. What else would you like to see?

Has anyone skied the 2021 vapor yet? Would be curious to hear thoughts, however brief or anecdotal, particularly from anyone coming off an older model vapor!

Done! Great idea

@keithh2oskier yep agreed that is annoying! It's being changed this month

Hi Ballers - the bugs which you've all kindly flagged up have been fixed in relation to (a) wind speed when your preference is mph, (b) water temp decimals when in Fahrenheit, and © defaulting to current local time (actually it's slightly before...to give time for changing etc) Hope the app is working well for everyone anyway. Give me a shout if there's any issues and as always love to hear new ideas Busy now working on some bigger improvements (including plenty suggested in this thread) to come later in the summer!

Thanks again for all the support! @503Kento good spot, thanks for pointing that one out. Will add to the fix list!

Hi Ballers - thank you all for your continued interest, feedback and support. @jrs Thanks for linking that site. I really like your starring idea a lot too. ZO + shouldn't be a problem but hopefully you can work with the existing settings for the time being...looking to batch a lot of these ideas up to do in one hit alongside some new bits. @ghutch @mfjaegersr thanks for the support and feedback! KPH bug will get fixed too, hopefully not too much of a pain for the time being. @Horton Am working at the moment on taking the analytics to the next level (up a few levels actually!). Will have lots of scope to really geek out on it. Once you've got a decent volume of data logged at least

@Horton no plan but of course if ever there was an issue with Swervetracker export to CSV would be the absolute worst case back up plan at a minimum What do you mean by re-importing data? For skiers that want to get past logs into Swervetracker? Not something I'd considered, but would have to be to a fairly rigid format which might take a bit of time for people to re-jig their data into...possible though for sure

@Cfootin stoked you like it! Thanks for pointing out the wind bug too, will get that ironed out. It’s a really good question on your data. I’ve actually got a personal interest in this… I used a site called proskicoach (I’m sure plenty of you will remember it) probably around 2007/2008 time, when I was young, pretty new to skiing and improving at a decent rate. Those were the days! It had a cool tool where you could record really basic data – I think it was just your single best score and notes on the set. Anyway, I used it for two or three years and long story short, ended up losing all the data when that site ceased to be. That was a bummer! So it’s really important to me that Swervetracker is sustainable. Data is safe in the cloud, not on any hardware of my own that could be damaged/lost etc. I’m also based in the UK, and European General Data Protection Regulations (AKA GDPR) are unbelievably strict on how data is kept too – rightly so. In terms of Swervetracker itself, the running costs are pretty low but at some point (depending where users top out), I’ll probably have to find a way for it to wash its face. My preference in that scenario would be to keep it free with some sort of really simple sponsorship. If that doesn’t fly then maybe some sort of small subscription would be needed. As I said earlier, no more than a couple sets worth of gas per year. It's a pet project, so I'd love if Swervetracker could add value for everyone else in the sport for years to come. ...and if we do lose your data, it's a small community, so you probably know someone that knows someone that knows where to find me! :D Owen

@BlueSki hope it's all working for you, let me know if you've got any problems? @TEL - Am thinking about some more filtering/charting tools at the moment which should eventually make that (and other variables) all really easy to analyse @epnault RE linking with ski partners also thinking about this a lot. Watch this space!

Has anyone used an app called GOWOD with any success to increase their range of movement? Seems a really cool concept - you run a bunch of pretty objective tests and it gives you a score across a few areas - then it sets a program to work on your weak spots. Be interesting to see some results. I suspect other skiers might have a similar profile to mine below...good ankle flex and pretty poor elsewhere (particularly overhead)!

Some say 'tennis elbow' is really just a conspiracy to help sell Jeff Rodgers' old handles.

Hi @epnault glad you like the app! Lots of really exciting stuff in the pipeline. RE sharing performance, what kind of thing are you imagining or would you find useful?

@34mph If you go to www.swervetracker.com and click ‘download and install’ there are instructions on how to get the icon on your home screen for both Android and iOS (Apple). The advantage of doing that is that the app will also open full-screen rather than within a safari/chrome window. So would highly recommend! @Martin1980 Air temp is a good idea, will add that. For boot and fin settings, if you put them into your defaults/preferences (under settings) you shouldn’t have to change every time. Let me know if you’re finding any issues once you’ve done that. @C5Quest you should find your issue with ski/fin settings is resolved. Have also bumped the DFT range way up for the whisper fins so hope that helps. Sorry I missed the leading edge bit – shouldn’t be an issue either. Thanks again all for helping make swervetracker better!

@rayn that's a good idea and definitely something will get around to @C5Quest thanks a lot for such detailed thoughts! (1) Will take a look at the issue you're having. (2) Agreed that's a good idea. (3) wowza that's a lot of DFT! Okay had no idea Whisper Fins were running that far forward. Will bump up the scope there. (4/5) would be curious what others think, hopefully not a big issue either way?? Thanks again for the feedback :)

Hi Ballers, There's a few changes based on your thoughts now live in the app, including; - Perfect Pass Z-box options - More intervals (down to 16ths of an inch) for binding settings - Some of you might have noticed a bug which showed charting in Meters / KPH even if preferences were set for feet off / MPH. That is now fixed. Thanks again for all your feedback so far, let me know any other ways you think Swervetracker can be made better? These were all easy tweaks but there's scope for bigger projects in time.

@pcmcon729 - it's available now! @Ali I've wrangled with that idea previously (like I'm sure many do, I knock a fraction off the boat speed for the first set or two of the year too, and I know others like to do middling line lengths mid-season) - but ultimately decided for the 'greater good' of simplicity, making logging easy and quick, and keeping the charting from getting confused that it was best to stick with the official speeds / lines, which I would guess most are running >90% of the time... If there's really a lot of demand for this I'm sure there's a way to achieve both, but it's not an immediate priority - I'd suggest for the time being using the notes section to highlight speed was a fraction low etc. Thanks again for the feedback, definitely something to consider for the future anyhow!

@epnault thanks for the support, its been a great project so far. There are no plans as it stands for a native iOS app (via the app store) - mainly because it would take more time and investment to develop native apps for both iOS and Android separately. However, if you save the login page on to your home screen (follow instructions on www.swervetracker.com ) you will have an icon just like an app, and when you click that it will open up exactly like an app (rather than in a safari window). @Stefan binding placement is a top priority, will be amending both of those things by the end of this week, thanks for pointing out range on DFT as well, will do that at the same time. And thanks for the kind words!

Hi guys, thanks again for all your thoughts and support. @Bill22 Exactly - by clicking that little blue pencil you can add default(s) boat, driver, lake as I've assumed most skiers will ski with the same most of the time. However, every time you log a set you still have the option to change the default (for the occasions it's different), and any driver (or lake or boat) you add in the future will appear in your drop down list thereafter. @Cfootin It is a web app so not available in the app store, but if you simply save the page to your home screen (simple instructions on www.swervetracker.com only takes 10 seconds) then you will have an icon just like a native app, and it will open fullscreen just like a native app. @503Kento That's a great idea. Although I do love tapping through the rope colors! You're right though it would make it a touch faster. Something to add to the list!

@Bill22 - you need to click the little blue pencil to enter the data first (the drop down will be empty until you've input your boat / lake etc) If that's not the issue, would be great if you're able to send me a message with any screenshots and we can take a look. Thanks again for the feedback, Owen